Just voted in Texas.
I really like our new voting system. They gave me a piece of ballot paper. I insert it into the voting machine, make my choices, and the machine prints and spits out all my votes onto the ballot.
I verify the printed choices is correct, then go to the scanning machine, insert it against into the scanning machine which then scans and records the vote, the actual ballot is also stored inside the machine for later auditing if necessary.
No scanning errors because the ballots are printed by machines, no doubts about what votes the machines recorded, and a physical ballot that can later be audited.
I like that! Should be universal but RATs would vote against it.
That’s the first thing Kari Lake & others should do when take office, reform the voting systems to prevent widespread fraud.
That seems like a really efficient compromise. You have the benefit of not having to hand count every ballot, but you have a system in place with a machine counted ballots can be audited/verified if necessary
Just got back from voting at 10:30 am in SE Illinois. Polling place was the busiest I have EVER seen in the 20 years I’ve lived here.
Rural farm community of ~6500 people that generally vote Republican 65%-35%. Was 2/3rds geezers like myself.
Could make the Pissger-Bailey race interesting.